Senate Sponsors: RADOGNO-LINK-SULLIVAN. House Sponsors: LYONS,EILEEN-ZICKUS-KOSEL-O'CONNOR-SCHMITZ Short description: MUNI CD-SUBMIT BLACKOUT PLAN Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of a municipality may, by ordinance, require a public utility providing electrical service to residents of the municipality to submit planned outage or rolling blackout plans to the municipality. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Deletes reference to: 65 ILCS 5/11-42-11.5 new Adds reference to: 5 ILCS 140/7 from Ch. 116, par. 207 65 ILCS 5/Art. 11, Div. 21.5 heading new 65 ILCS 5/11-21.1-5 new Deletes everything. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality may adopt a local emergency energy plan ordinance that requires any electric utility (i) that serves more than 1,000,000 customers in Illinois and (ii) that is operating in the municipality to submit a local emergency energy plan for dealing with controlled rotating outages to the municipality. Requires certain information to be included in the local emergency energy plan. Requires the electric utility to give the municipality notice before the utility implements the plan. Allows a municipality to assess civil penalties for violations of the local emergency energy plan ordinance. Limits a municipality's liability for actions resulting from (i) a decision to adopt or refrain from adopting a local emergency energy plan ordinance and (ii) acts or omissions under the terms of or information provided in a local emergency energy plan. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Exempts information contained in a local emergency energy plan from the provisions of the Act. Effective immediately. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 91-0137 Last action date: 99-07-16 Location: Senate Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 0 SENATE - 1 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status